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title: Successfully Concluded! OSS-Compass Conference Highlights -- Open Source Experts Unveil New Dimensions of Value
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  - Blog
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On June 3, 2025, the OSS-Compass Product Innovation Conference was successfully held at the Zhongguan New Garden, Peking University. Industry experts from top domestic and international institutions gathered to share insights on open source ecosystem development, including Peking University, Nanjing University, Institute of Software (CAS), National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, OpenAtom Open Source Foundation, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Linux Foundation CHAOSS community, OSCHINA, Baidu, ByteDance, Huawei, Honor, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Tianjin University of Technology, Shanghai Open Source Information Technology Association, and CAS Institute of Science and Development.

Hosted by Wang Yehui, Co-Chair of the OSS-Compass Technical Committee, the conference kicked off with the theme "Breaking Traditional Evaluation Models: Let Real-World Scenarios Speak", featuring three core agendas: new service launches, the initiation of an ISO standard working group, and business planning for the AI working group. Real-world cases demonstrated the core value of four new services. Let's revisit the highlights of this open source feast!

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## I. Speech Session

Zhou Minghui, Associate Dean of the School of Computer Science at Peking University and OSS-Compass Board member, emphasized the importance of open source and data as the core drivers of AI development. He highlighted that open source serves as a key pathway to building a community with a shared future for mankind, while data forms the foundation of intelligence—together, they power technological progress and global collaboration in the digital era.

Wu Yanjun, Deputy Director of the Institute of Software (CAS), stated that OSS-Compass is dedicated to constructing open source data ecosystem infrastructure. "Open source is not only an internal need of the digital world but also a necessity for human civilization development," he said, noting that OSS-Compass plays a vital role in sustainable open source development by maintaining contributors' recognition and fostering ecosystem vitality.

Ke Meng, Director of Huawei's Open Source Management Center, cited Huawei's deep involvement in the open source ecosystem, revealing that a significant proportion of Huawei's internal software relies on open source. He emphasized that enterprises need comprehensive open source evaluation to enhance product competitiveness, and OSS-Compass's data analysis provides strong support for industry development—especially as open source software analysis becomes increasingly critical in the intelligent era.

Daniel Izquierdo, Co-Founder of CHAOSS and CEO of Bitergia, called open source "a paradise for collaboration," noting that it remains a key venue for cooperation even amid geopolitical tensions. "Open source is not only the key to software industry success but also boosts productivity and meets customer needs," he said, highlighting its unique value in global technical collaboration.

## II. Launch of New Services

OSS-Compass unveiled its new product matrix, including the "Open Source Research Data Hub Service", "Open Source Software Selection Evaluation Service", "Open Source Ecosystem Insight Service", "Developer Profiling Service", and "Intelligent Open Source Component Recommendation".

### 1. Open Source Research Data Hub Service

Zhou Minghui shared the construction of a global data infrastructure covering 46 platforms and ~200 million repositories. Using a hierarchical data model, it enables open source project health measurement, software supply chain analysis, and deprecation prediction. The vision is to collaborate with stakeholders to build open source ecosystem infrastructure, promote international standards, and foster a global open source innovation ecosystem.

Zhou's team members Yang Wenhao and Xu Yiming presented three research cases: A health measurement framework evaluating projects across vitality, organization, collaboration, and service dimensions to assist maintainers and enterprises; A code replication-based software supply chain study using full-graph construction and clone algorithms for code tracing and license compliance; An open source deprecation prediction model using survival analysis to assess risks for multiple stakeholders. The Data Hub Service currently has mirror sites at Peking University and the Institute of Software (CAS).

### 2. Open Source Software Selection Evaluation Service

Liang Guanyu, engineer at the Institute of Software (CAS) and OSS-Compass Board member, introduced the open source selection capabilities enhanced by OSS-Compass for the Central Repository. Integrating OSS-Compass evaluation technology, it enables automated maintainability assessment for software packages, supports financial industry open source standard implementation, and plans to build a software institute mirror site, integrate risk maintenance evaluation, and access intelligent recommendation services to become a best practice for open source evaluation.

### 3. Open Source Ecosystem Insight Service

Zhao Hailing, project lead of China Open Source Development In-Depth Report at the OpenAtom Foundation, announced that OSS-Compass serves as the core data platform for global open source ecosystem insights. Analysis based on 100+ million samples shows China ranked third in global open source contribution in 2024, first in AI, with developer retention rates exceeding India—but 14th in import/export, reflecting an "export-led" feature. The foundation plans to build an open source ecosystem research community with OSS-Compass, focusing on annual reports and insight activities.

### 4. Developer Profiling Service & Intelligent Component Recommendation

Wang Liang, Associate Professor at Nanjing University and Co-Chair of the OSS-Compass Technical Committee, shared insights on developer profiling through "skill + willingness" dual-dimension modeling, achieving 83% recall rate with 1.13 million data validations. Emotional features provide important reference value for contribution willingness assessment. Component recommendation progresses in phases: Phase 1 covers 110,000 third-party libraries, Phase 2 multi-layer graph model achieves 66% recommendation accuracy, with future plans to introduce large models for deeper requirement understanding. Both features are now live on OSS-Compass.

## III. Planning Discussion for Two Working Groups

### 1. ISO Working Group Establishment

Daniel Izquierdo introduced the ISO Working Group, which aims to promote international standards for open source community evaluation. The group attracts participation from domestic and international institutions including Peking University, OpenAtom Open Source Foundation, National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Huawei, ByteDance, Linux Foundation CHAOSS community, and Bitergia. Supported by OSS-Compass data and integrating industry best practices, the group plans to complete a standard draft by 2025 through open initiatives and industrial practice integration, promoting global collaboration to reduce enterprise costs, enhance brand trust, address geopolitical challenges, and drive the open source ecosystem from technical competition toward rule co-construction.

### 2. AI Working Group Business Planning

Led by Qi Guoqiang, head of the OSS-Compass AI Working Group, the initiative addresses the growing enterprise dependence on open source software. The open source market reached $33 billion in 2023 and is projected to exceed $100 billion by 2032, forming a "core triangle" of supply side (open source communities), demand side (enterprise applications), and capability side (academic research and ecosystem tools). OSS-Compass has served academic research and enterprise open source management for two years, building a complete capability system from data processing to model analysis, while facing challenges like missing paper data and high customization costs. As AI evolves from collaboration to production workflows and toward industry search engines, OSS-Compass is advancing a "1+1+N+N" intelligence strategy through key capabilities in interaction, intent, execution, and knowledge engineering, transforming data and rules into knowledge to create an intelligent open source ecosystem platform. The plan receives AI computing support from ModelArk and attracts 20 students through open source community internships, aiming to deepen the synergy between open source and AI ecosystems.

## IV. Major Industry Report Showcase

Xin Xiaohua, Deputy Director of the Software Institute at the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, presented the "China Open Source Whitelist", which aims to identify active Chinese open source projects with growth potential in the community. Evaluation criteria include project activity, community participation, code quality, and other aspects. He used data to reveal the rising trend of Chinese open source projects globally and new changes in the developer community, providing important reference for industry development. Whitelist projects will receive attention from investment institutions and preferential policy support from local governments, helping quality projects grow while attracting more resources to open source ecosystem construction.

## V. Roundtable Deep Discussion

In the roundtable discussion at the OSS-Compass Product Innovation Conference, focusing on "Building Open Source Data Infrastructure", OSS-Compass Board member and Huawei open source expert Ma Quanyi (moderator) engaged in deep exchanges with OSS-Compass Board member and OSCHINA founder Hong Shu; OSS-Compass Board member and Baidu Open Source Office Product Operations Manager Ma Hongwei; OSS-Compass Board member and Executive Deputy Secretary-General of China Open Source Promotion Alliance Tan Zhongyi; and Nanjing University Associate Professor, OSS-Compass Board member and Technical Committee Co-Chair Wang Liang.

They explored the value of open source data infrastructure in information extraction, knowledge model construction, and cross-source data fusion, emphasizing the foundational nature of data organization and cleaning. Using the data flywheel concept to build business closed loops, focusing on high-value scenarios, they discussed bidirectional empowerment from "AI for OSS-Compass" and "OSS-Compass for AI", mining the strategic significance of open source contribution data to serve national strategies, analyzing open source development trends and geopolitical impacts. They reached consensus that open source has no political attributes but requires vigilance against entity exploitation differences, ultimately clarifying future action plans for data infrastructure, AI empowerment, and standard output, highlighting the strategic value of open source data as digital era infrastructure.

From guests' deep sharing to technical release product demonstrations to roundtable discussion intellectual exchanges, every segment was filled with wisdom and passion. On-site guests actively participated in interactions, providing open source partners with opportunities for in-depth communication.